Strandbeests in Boston
When:
Saturday, Aug 22, 2015 12:00p -
Thursday, Sep 10, 2015 7:00p
Saturday, Aug 22, 2015 12:00p -
Thursday, Sep 10, 2015 7:00p
Where:
City Hall Plaza, Dewey Square, MIT
City Hall Plaza
Boston, MA
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
< 21, Art, Innovation, Tech
Event website:
http://northofboston.org/event/the-dream-of-the-strandbeest/
Strandbeests (Dutch: strand=beach; beests=beasts) are coming to Boston! (Then Salem for its first major American exhibition.)
Inventor Theo Jansen has been creating Strandbeests—wind-walking examples of artificial life—since 1990. What was at first a rudimentary breed has slowly evolved into a generation of machines that are able to react to their environment: "over time, these skeletons have become increasingly better at surviving the elements such as storms and water, and eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives."
See the beasts on one of four different days...
– Saturday, August 22, 10 a.m.-noon, at Crane Beach, Ipswich
– Friday, August 28, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at City Hall Plaza
– Friday, August 28, 4:30-7 p.m. at the Rose Kennedy Greenway and Dewey Square
– Thursday, September 10, 3-7 p.m. at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge (a panel discussion with Jansen, PEM curator Trevor Smith, and MIT associate professor Neri Oxman will take place from 3 to 5 p.m., after which the standbeests will walk around the plaza outside).
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More about the exhibition in Salem:
PEM presents the first major American exhibition of Theo Jansen’s famed kinetic sculptures. Dynamic and interdisciplinary, Jansen’s Strandbeests (“beach animals”) blur the lines between art and science, sculpture and performance. The exhibition celebrates the thrill of the Strandbeests’ unique locomotion as well as the processes that have driven their evolutionary development on the Dutch seacoast. The kinetic sculptures are accompanied by artist sketches, facilitated demonstrations of the creatures’ complex ambulatory systems, a hall of “fossils” as well as photography by Lena Herzog.
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